On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Ian Simcock wrote:
> First time posting, so don't abuse me too much. :-)
Aww, c'mon... who are we supposed to abuse? ;-)
> This may have been too much trouble, and even if it's not it might be
> too late now to change, but wouldn't it have been better if all the UI
> objects only had Dabo Attributes etc? Then there would never be any
> confusion as to what's Dabo and what's the UI (wx at the moment, but one
> day, anything). So the object would only have all of the Dabo entries
> plus one new one, WrappedObject. WrappedObject would then be a reference
> to the underlying object that can then be used on the odd occasions that
> you want to access it directly. This would perhaps also help developers
> keep in mind that one day there might/will be other UI libraries and
> that they are doing something that will bite them if they ever want to
> change.
We actually did consider such an approach, but it proved too
problematic. This was quite some time ago, so I don't remember if the problem
was with wxPython or with our then-limited mastery of Python, but I do remember
that the mixin approach proved much cleaner.
-- Ed Leafe
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